The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty ...
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Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.
where the British East India Company held a monopoly from 1757 (transferred to the crown in 1873), and the produce was exported to China, eventually triggering the Opium War and China's so-called ...
Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade. Opium and ...